Leadership Quotes
Leaders must accept total responsibility, own problems that inhibit performance, and develop solutions to those problems.
Jocko WillinkJocko Willink The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
Theodore RooseveltTheodore Roosevelt We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
Queen VictoriaQueen Victoria All good leaders are connectors. They relate well and make people feel confident about themselves and their leader.
John C. MaxwellJohn C. Maxwell If leadership requires a fired-up sense of purpose and imagination, it also demands a profound connection to the society to be led.
George TakeiGeorge Takei No kind action ever stops with itself. One kind action leads to another.
Amelia EarhartAmelia Earhart Ninety-nine percent of leadership failures are failures of character.
Norman SchwarzkopfNorman Schwarzkopf Whether on the battlefield or in the business world, leaders must be comfortable accepting some level of risk.
Jocko WillinkJocko Willink Leadership requires finding the equilibrium in the dichotomy of many seemingly contradictory qualities, between one extreme and another.
Jocko WillinkJocko Willink The highest manifestation of true leadership is to identify one’s replacement and to begin mentoring him or her.
Myles MunroeMyles Munroe The point is not to completely understand God but to worship Him. Let the very fact that you cannot know Him fully lead you to praise Him for His infiniteness and grandeur.
Francis ChanFrancis Chan If only political leaders would allow themselves to feel, as well as to think, the world might be a happier place.
Golda MeirGolda Meir More than a decade of continuous war and tough combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan gave birth to a new generation of leaders in the ranks of America’s fighting forces.
Jocko WillinkJocko Willink Never let yourself be persuaded that any one Great Man, any one leader, is necessary to the salvation of America. When America consists of one leader and 158 million followers, it will no longer be America.
Dwight D. EisenhowerDwight D. Eisenhower It is one of the strange discoveries a man can make that life, however you lead it, contains moments of exhilaration; there are always comparisons which can be made with worse times: even in danger and misery the pendulum swings.
Graham GreeneGraham Greene Thoughts will lead you in circles. Silence will bring you back to your centre.
Rasheed OgunlaruRasheed Ogunlaru